Thanks for the interesting challenge. I was inspired by the way you used a painted landscape. To add to the sense of calming your mind, I layered and gradually blended two photos of the same scene. On top is the original and the underneath uses an artistic mode available in PSE. If you look...

To add to the sense of calming your mind, I layered and gradually blended two photos of the same scene. On top is the original and the underneath uses an artistic mode available in PSE. If you look closely, the boulders and water in the foreground are sharp with normal focus and then the distant...

Thanks for the challenge. Here is a negative space, simple layout from me.

Thank you for the challenge and the template. Here is mine.

Wow. I love your blending here and the simple cluster in the natural colors. All is set off so nicely with the b & w photo and the plain but so important sentiment.

So pretty!

Fantastic photos and I love the way you layered them. The Bison Jam title work is really inspired! LOL.

Love all the neutrals with a hint of yellow! Great use of a tiny photo, too.

That patterned paper caught my eye in the gallery. So vintage looking - I love it! Then you paired it with the coupon book frame and the layered paper ephemera, and I loved it even more. I like how there is so much "negative" space on the page. Great photo!

Thanks so much for the Standing O. You made my day!

Here is mine. Thanks for the challenge.

@bitzee @FloridaGranny @NAdams @AK_Tracy @zanthia @sucali Between two malfunctions (which required ordered parts) and two power outages due to storms, my daughter's family was without air conditioning for a considerable time in June. And summer Texas heat is no joke. It had become a whole...

Wow! Thanks so much! This is quite the honor!

We've visited many botanical gardens over the years, but Dallas was unique in that so many of the little sitting nooks were actually OCCUPIED. There were a ton of people just finding a quiet and beautiful place to read or sit or picnic.

Here is my mood board challenge - such interesting choices! I was inspired by the following: #3 - drawn multi-colored circles, #5 - leaves lining the sides, #7 - both the multi-media background and the outlines of the botanicals, #8 - the garden path, #9 - the simple multi-colored flowers.

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It was some tall grass, LOL. Going from patch to patch in the experimental section was truly interesting! The grasses were all sizes and colors, and so were the hydrangea. I never new the corymbs - the flower clusters on hydrangea - could be so many different shapes. Thanks so much for the...